Associate Scrum Master

🕒 June 28

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First Advantage

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5001 - 10000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

First Advantage is a leading provider of global software and data for the HR technology market. Enabled by proprietary technology and AI, it delivers employment background screening, digital identity and verification services, APIs, and risk-monitoring products across the employee lifecycle. The company emphasizes automation and continuous identity verification, serving roughly 80,000 organizations in over 200 countries and territories, and maintains large proprietary databases (over one billion records). Headquartered in Atlanta and publicly traded (NASDAQ: FA), First Advantage focuses on helping customers hire smarter and onboard faster through software, data and services.

📋 Description

• Ensure that their agile development pods live and practice the desired agile values and follow the agreed upon processes and practices • Learn to clear obstacles and establish an environment where the team can maximize their effectiveness by limiting interruptions and distractions • Facilitate a healthy collaborative relationship between the pod and product owner and maintain a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution • Manage scope, process, timelines, and metrics for up to 1 development pods while removing blockers, resolving conflicts, and facilitating internal team communication and collaboration • Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, show and tells, grooming and planning meetings, and daily stand-ups • Build and maintain a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product, drive value through outcomes, and enjoy their work • Coach team members and business stakeholders in the chosen agile framework and guide the pods to higher levels of agile maturity • Be the point of contact for external communications with stakeholders and support the product owners on grooming and maintaining the product backlog • Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technology field or equivalent proven experience in an agile environment • Minimum 1 year(s) of experience in a hands-on application development Scrum Master role for one or more agile development pods • First Level Scrum master certification (e.g. CSM, PSM) is required • Product Owner, PMI-ACP, and other agile certifications are highly desirable • Familiarity with software development and prioritization methodologies • Mid-level knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, team working agreement, acceptance criteria) • Good knowledge of Agile frameworks (pair programming, Kanban, etc.) • Awareness of Agile techniques like TDD, BDD, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery • Excellent communication and servant leadership skills • Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability • Outstanding organizational skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities, such as our award-winning SOAR program • Generous Paid Time Off Program* • Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Policy to encourage involvement in philanthropic activities* • Competitive benefits (medical, dental, etc.)* • Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available to all team members • Opportunities to connect with colleagues across six Employee Impact Groups and participate in Employee Experience events throughout the year